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Agreed, national security isn't something I would be overly worried about from Avago. Not saying there's definitely no concern there, since there's probably some 5G work from Qualcomm that's actually somewhat sensitive. But the biggest concern imo is preventing further consolidations in semiconductors, especially large ones such as this. It's not only bad for employees, but it kills competition that is sorely needed areas like RF.

I don't know that I've ever said this, but I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day: Thank you, Trump.

If one of the biggest phone SoC producers were bought out by a Singapore-based company, I would give it a year before backdoors start popping up. Similar spyware sort of things have already happened with OnePlus, Xiaomi, Huawei and ZTE, etc. With lower-level access like this, it makes sense that it would be construed as a threat to national security.

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